In many of the workplaces I visit as a neuroscientist, stressed workers behave much like addicted lab rats. But you don’t have to quit the rat race to start feeling better at work.
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A significant share of the workforce wakes up every day without knowing at what time they’ll work – or even if they will earn anything at all.
Like cancer, bullying will affect a majority of employees during their working lives, as a victim, witness, or perhaps as the alleged bully. And like cancer, there’s no silver bullet to cure bullying.
Why three-day weekends are not only feasible but the basis of a better standard of life.
How successful a mother or career scientist one can become depends on how one’s available time is divided between the two activities.
New Year’s resolutions are one thing. But what does it take to devote your life to a work goal with such a long time horizon you might never reach it in your lifetime?
Much of the work we do cannot be properly measured, and yet we often get judged unfairly for it.
MPs will vote Monday on a welfare bill which imagines a world where work is a gilded path away from poverty.
The way the UK thinks about workplaces and workers means that those learning a trade are at a disadvantage. And that’s bad news as we attempt to add 3m apprentices to the mix.
The changes President Obama proposed are hardly radical and are in keeping with the original spirit of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
When workers are living their lives online, it’s hard to see the joins between home and office. So how can employers answer the growing desire to seprate the seemingly inseparable?
British orgainsed labour has remained relevant despite the onslaught suffered during the 1980s, but it lacks the institutional structure that would make the future secure.
It has been a long road back for Britain from the economic crisis of 2007/8. The chancellor’s Autumn Statement is an indication of how he aims to keep growth on track, but the prime minister has already…
Richard Branson has introduced a radical new policy for Virgin employees, offering his personal staff unlimited holiday rather than a fixed number of days in a given year. Announcing the idea on his blog…
Flexible working time, once a perk for successful professionals, has gone mainstream. From June 30, the right to request flexible working will be extended to all workers in the UK. In a time where most…
In a world of iPhones and drones, people are right to wonder why they are still working so hard. The past century saw huge technological advances and yet there hasn’t been a corresponding increase in leisure…
How happy are you in your job? Very happy or very unhappy? New data suggests that the happiest workers in the UK occupy jobs in the clergy. The next happiest workers are CEOs, and “managers and proprietors…
Economists at the University of Warwick have found happiness increases productivity by around 12%. Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi carried out a number of experiments to test the idea that…
Anger has traditionally been considered an emotion to be avoided at work as it is often linked to a lack of personal control. Anger at work is often seen as unprofessional; an uncontrolled response linked…
If Google chairman Eric Schmidt is to be believed, the automation of jobs will be the “defining” problem of the next two to three decades. At a debate at Davos 2014, he warned that the constant development…
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia University
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MBA Director & Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Program Director & Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational and Applied Health Psychology, Adler University
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Associate professor of work and employment, University of Southampton
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Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent
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Associate Professor of Management, York University, Canada
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Cadre en exercice, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
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Adjunct Professor of Organizational Studies, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Dean, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
